The Progress., 1887-12-03
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
interesting Items Gathered from
Various Localities.
ILLTNOIS.

ILLINOIS.
R w. Ashbrook and wife, of Mattoon,
celebrated their golden wedding few days
ago.
Near Sdell, Coles County, horses were
| recently dying by the score from a disease
SIMILAR to cancer. Nothing had been found
| that would relieve tine beast dying or cure
| the disease
| James Ray, a druggist, jumped from a
ffth-story window of the Grace Hotel in
Chicago few mornings ago and was al
most Instantly killed
B. F. Henry is the Oldest teacher in De
Witt County For twenty-three years h.
/ has taught school, during which time he
has had under his charge l, 9S6 children,
and thinks this winters school will COM
plete the 1000.
hanging of the Anarchists 100000 has
been refused for piece Of inside real estate
which could have been bought before the
execution for $50O,O OOO
Inspector Bonfeld recently distributed
$500 among the families of the officers
killed at the Haymarket riot in Chicago.
The donor would not divulge his identity.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Crowell celebrated
the sixtieth anniversary OF their wedding at
Salem, a few days ago.
There are now 543 inmates at the Illinois
Soldiers and Sailors Home at Quincy. and
! the buildings are SO Ouncomfortably crowded
| that the trustees have announced that no
more veterans can be received until the
new cottages are completed
Thomas Stewart, a respectable colOred
farmer OF Normal, was murdered the other
night on lonely road.
! w. T.. Cunningham, of Fairmount, has
been appointed master in chancery for Yer
million County. He has received more Of
ficlal appointments than any other man in
his county, having held some Office or
| other ever since 1855.
Harvey johnson, rich farmer of Pal
myra, aged sixty-fve years, was found
dead in a field near his house a few days
ago. 1t was supposed he fell from his
horse.
fire in the Saratoga Hotel in Chicago
few nights ago caused loss of 800, 900.
A panic ensued among the CUES S, but no
lives were lost and no one was injured
The Illinois grand encampment of Odd
Fellows, in session at Cairo recently, elected
D. l. Murdock, of Fairbury, Grand Patri-
arch; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. c. Smith,
Grand Scribe, and John T. Foss, of Chicago,
|
is reported during the pastyear; total mem
bership, $4,000. :.
| IOWA.
The fourteenth annual meeting of the
Iowa State Improved Stock Breeding AS
soc1ation will commence in the opera-house
III Newton December z, closing on the 9th.
The State Short Horn Cattle, Draft Horse
and Holstein Cattle associations will hold
their annual meetings at the same place on
the 9th and 9TH of December
On account of the incendiary fires at
Dubuque the Standard Lumber Company
at that place has shut down for the season.
Nearly every city in the State reports a
large list of marriage licenses.
At Des Moines the other day the Des
Moines & Osceola railroad was sold by order
| OF court, NJ B. V. Edgerly, of Springfield,
| purchasing it for $3O5, 900.
The trustees of the new insane asylum at
Clarinda inform the Governor that the
building is nearly completed
The State authorities are being urged to
make new geological survey. The last
one took place twenty years ago.
Dlphtherla was recently reported in
many towns east of Sioux City, and num-
Der OF deaths had occurred.
The second report of the State Oil Inspect
or has been given to the public. The show
ing made by the office is good Since the
law went into effect there has not been a
single loss of life from explosion of oil
Dr. W. S. Barnard professor OF natural
science in Drake University, died at Des
Moines few days ago.
Forty of the brakemen on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad struck few
| Of
to go out on double headers
John Williams and Preston Rush fought
over a game of cards at Keokuk early the
other morning, and the latter was stabbed
to the heart
A gas-pipe bomb was exploded the other
night in the main shop of the Iowa iron
works at Dubuque No person was in
jured and the building was but slightly dam
i aged
The United States Supreme Courts recent
decision in the ''drive-well case" appealed
from Iowa, declaring that the claims of the
alleged patenJee are not well-founded, is a
victory for thousands OF Iowa farmers and
other people who have for years been an
noyed and blackmailed. The Supreme
Courts decision is final. 49,
! The Board Of Trustees of the State Agri-
cultural College at Ames have elected as
professor of agriculture Prof Loren P.
Smith, of New York
WISCONSIN.
Seven thousand feet of lumber, thirty
cords OF wood, three cars and other proper
| ty were destroyed by fire recently at
/ Stephens ime-kilns near Madison
The body of Eric Tosterton, farmer
who disappeared from his home near Eau
/ Claire, was found by a hunting party hang
Ing from the limb of a tree a few days ago.
Jacob Steinman, an old soldier, aged six
! ty-eight years, suicided recently by drown
ing in the Rock river near Watertown
The State Board of Pharmacy at it's re-
cent meeting in Appleton organized a
mutual fire insurance company for the pur-
pose of insuring drug stores only.
The twenty Madison University students
arrested for hazing son Of Prof Rosen-
stengel were each fined six dollars the
other day.
1 At Viroqua few days ago a Juvenile
temple Of the ]. O. G. T. was organized with
i ninety-seven charter members, and a lodge
of Good Templars with thirty three men,
/ berS as instituted